Log-binder



(No Modl.)

J. H. BENJAMIN.

LUG BINDER.

No. 300,437. PatentedJune 17, 1884. n

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BENJAMIN, OF SAGINAV, MICHIGAN.

LOG-BINDER.

SPECIICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,437, dated June 17, 1884.

Application filed December 8, i883. (No model.)

To @Zi whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. BENJAMIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city oi' Saginaw, in the county of Saginaw and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Log-Binders, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specific-ation, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l is a perspective elevation. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a side elevation.

Like letters of reference denote like parts.

A is a lever. B is a clevis. C is the fulcruin of the lever A. D is a ring to be fastened to one end of the binding or bunk chain. E is a hook in the end of t-he lever A, formed with and of the saine piece. F is a link. G is a grab-hook. The lever A is attached to the clevis B by the fulerurn C.

To operate my improved log-binder the grab-hook Gr is hooked onto the binding-chain, with the handle of the lever A thrown up, as shown in Fig. 2. The hook E is also hooked into the ring D. The handle of the lever A is then forced down to the position shown in Fig. 3, and rests against the load. In the downward motion of the handle of the lever A, the fulcruni C passes through the ring D and stops on the opposite side, and the hook is forced to theopposite side ofthe fulcruin G by the changed position of the lever A, thereby moving the hook E a suiificient distance to take up all the slack in the bindingchain, and binds the load as rnily as maybe desired. The lever A is heldin place by the strain produced on the bindingehain. To un bind the load the handle of the lever A is forced out toward the operator and away from the load until the fulcruni C passes through the ring D. The strain on the binding-chain then throws the handle of the lever A quickly up and reverses the position ot' the lever A, and the ring D unhooks from the hook E at the sarne time by the momentum of the lever A, throwing the short end ofthe lever A and hook E quickly out from the load and ring D, when the lever A strikes the load or lin i F.

I claim the following advantages in my invention over all other log-binders: iirst, greater convenience in operating, both in binding and unbinding the load, in being lighter and being less complicated, and especially in unbindng, by requiring no care or time of the operator to unhook; second, by doing away with the possibility of the binder being caught by the loss of slack in the binding-chain in unbinding by the spread of the load; third, it is cheaper constructed, requiring less material and time, and being less complicated.

Having thus described inyinvention, I claim to be new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patentv Ihe combination, with the lever A, of the clevis B, fulcrum C, and ring D, in the man ner and for the purpose speciiied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed iny naine in the presence of two witnesses.

J. H. BENJAMIN.

Vvitn esses:

JAMES MILLER, Fnnn B. Swnnr. 

